A 6806: Authorizes the city of Yonkers to establish one or more transportation improvement districts to improve transportation in certain critical areas of the city.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6806 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Cities AN ACT to authorize the city of Yonkers to establish a transportation improvement district or districts for the purpose of improving trans- portation in certain critical areas of such city The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, but 2 to the extent practicable, in accordance with the general city law, the 3 city of Yonkers, acting by and through its city council, is hereby 4 authorized to establish and operate a transportation improvement 5 district or transportation improvement districts within such city. The 6 purpose of such district or districts shall be to improve transportation 7 within certain critical areas of the city of Yonkers including, but not 8 limited to the Tuckahoe road corridor, the Yonkers raceway area, the 9 Nepperhan/Saw Mill industrial valley area, the northern and southern 10 waterfront development areas, the Riverdale avenue corridor, the Yonkers 11 avenue corridor and neighborhood commercial corridors. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02444-01-5